I’m also curious on when she split off from the “sacred timeline” cause it is heavily implied that it doesn’t take too long for a branch to reach the point of no return.

I think it’s possible that Sylvie is a younger Frigga, not a variant, just younger and Frigga knows all about this when she settles as Odin’s wife. Just a wild guess but I can brag if I end up being right.

Yeah, I’m really enjoying this show, but that’s one little thing that keeps bugging me. I mean, he’s an Asgardian. There’s variations amongst them as to how physically strong they are but they are all waaaaaaay more powerful than a normal human. And that’s not just a comics thing, they’ve explicitly showed this…

Why are Loki’s variants so physically different from him when they’re all part of the same Sacred Timeline? What even makes Sylvie a Loki?

It was a bit weird he jetted off to his “ice castle” for like ten years(?) - if his mum had said something like “Are you back for good this time?” it would have made more sense than Clark straight-up abandoning her. That was really the only bum note for me, given that we know Clark loved his mum and Smallville.

The Loki on this show that has fistfights with - and is sometimes overpowered by - seemingly totally normal human mortals has me confused when I think about the Loki that traded blows with Thor and had a slight edge on Captain America.

There’s no way the time pad is really broken. The next episode will be about Loki getting Sylvie’s guard down, she’ll tell him what they needed to do to charge it, but instead of sticking to the original plan of abandoning her, he’ll let her join him with a renewed purpose.

You might underestimate those first sixteen-ish years. I left the country after having known my small suburban town for roughly that amount of time and I still have friends from back then. Even now I hope to take my SigOth to visit someday.

Sylvie notes that she pulled a memory from “hundreds of years” before Hunter C-20 joined the TVA, so I guess the Time Keepers give their agents some kind of immortality?

Who is Loki when not scheming or obsessing over the giant chip on his shoulder from being Thor’s brother? Turns out he’s just a guy who likes to sing and dance and get hammered like any other Asgardian.

I loved this episode. It’s became clear so far that the show is less about solving the mystery (either of Loki Variant or TVA and Time Keepers) and more about character development of Loki. He was forced to face truths about himself from the first episode - his failures and loses and his relationships with others. And…

The flashbacks were stellar. They really showcased everything that makes Superman great. I would’ve been content to stay in the flashbacks for the entire episode. As for the lack of Kara, this is a classic comic book problem--I’d say it’s reasonable to assume she’s in the Phantom Zone at the moment.

• I had guessed that all of the TVA employees were variants, but that one woman has been alive for hundreds of years? How are they doing that?

C-20 seems to be from the present day though, and the scene where Sylvie was in her brain was set a few decades from now.

Yeah, no one on Lamentis seemed particularly bothered that the world was ending. There was no wailing and gnashing of teeth, just mild complaints about the rich and life continuing like there wasn’t a planet visibly crashing down on their heads.

• I kind of get the feeling that this is all an illusion to get Loki to trust Lady Loki by showing him how bad things can get, and at the beginning of next episode he’ll come out of it.

• Sylvie notes that she pulled a memory from “hundreds of years” before Hunter C-20 joined the TVA, so I guess the Time Keepers give their agents some kind of immortality?

My only gripe is the same one you had Caroline. I wish they went the Birthright route and had him travel the world, working as a freelance journalist before coming to Metropolis. Would have played well into that scene where he talks about learning all the languages.

Young Morgan Edge/Tal-Ro?

Man, good thing the DOD left the Kent-Lane family completely defenseless even though they now know that an actual evil Kryptonian is flying around trying to make Superman join his ranks. It would’ve been super inconvenient for those writers if Morg-Zoh or whoever-the-fuck got krypto-gassed, shot, or stabbed, or…